- Stanley Bender

OTHER NEWS TO NOTE DEATHS

June 26, 1994

Bender, who won the Medal of Honor for knocking out two German machine-gun nests during World War II, died Wednesday of cancer in Oak Hill, W.Va. He was 85. Bender was an Army staff sergeant when, two months after the June 1944 Normandy invasion, he stormed through a rain of bullets and grenades to take out the machine-gunners. His actions were credited with inspiring his troops to overwhelm the occupied town of La Londe, France. Bender also was awarded France's highest award, the Croix de Guerre, as well as the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star and seven battle stars.